Gustav Styger wrote:
> What would rank as your most memorable concert experiences for 2007?
It was a great concert year for me. There were two Mahler 8s by my
hometown orchestra, the National SO. The NSO did a Beethoven 5 that
made me feel like I'd heard it for the first time. Manfred Hoeneck,
recently named conductor of the Pittsburgh SO, guest-conducted the NSO
in a thrilling Tchaikovsky 5. A month or so ago, Nikolai Znayder excelled
in the Beethoven VC. Just last week I heard the Saint-Saens Organ
Symphony for the first time; the texture was markedly different from the
usual concert fare. And I have to mention Midori doing the Bartok VC,
Heinrich Schiff doing the Shostakovich cello concerto, and, in the same
concert as the Organ Symphony, Han-na Chang doing the Elgar CC.
But my absolute best concert, by miles, occurred in the second week of
the year: Thomas Hampson doing Das Lied von der Erde, coupled with the
Adagio of Mahler 10, at Colorado MahlerFest. The combination of one of
the world's best baritones, together with a semiprofessional but 100-percent
committed orchestra, was the stuff of magic. For more on this very
special week in Boulder, Colorado, see:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/SandH/2006/Jul-Dec06/mahler_fest.htm
Mitch Friedfeld
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